SAGAR ANDAGI

Domain: HR Tech - PeopleStrong HRMS

• Played a key client-side leadership role in the end-to-end implementation of PeopleStrong HRMS, owning both quality delivery and functional configuration enablement across all modules.
• Partnered with HR leadership, vendor teams, and IT to ensure seamless requirement translation, configuration alignment, and high-quality rollout.
• Contributed actively to functional and administrative configurations, including field-level properties, dropdown parameter setup, approval workflows, and HR letter templates.
• Defined and implemented a structured access and security governance framework (RBAC), determining access levels and data privacy measures across modules.
• Managed integration streams with biometric devices for attendance and Happay for expense management, ensuring seamless data synchronization and validation.
• Partnered with HR, IT, and vendor teams for configuration alignment, workflow setup, and issue resolution.
• Created detailed user manuals and conducted module-level trainings, supporting smooth adoption and system stabilization post go-live.
• Led validation cycles including UAT, regression, and production checks, ensuring a defect-free transition from the legacy system for Onboarding, HRIS,Confirmation,Transfer,Attendance,TA Recruit,Payroll and Separation Modules.
• Managed post-implementation change requests, access control revisions, and SLA-driven Freshservice tickets, ensuring stability and user satisfaction.

Domain: InfraTech / B2B E-Commerce

• Spearheaded quality engineering across four ERP-integrated applications driving 60% of company revenue.
• Led a 15+ member QE team, driving automation, performance, and security testing under one delivery model.
• Defined a scalable cross-platform hybrid automation framework (Web + Mobile) using modular POM and BDD design — reducing setup time by 80% and achieving 70% coverage across core workflows.
• Embedded UI and API automation into CI/CD (Jenkins, GoCD) pipelines linked to Jira-Xray, cutting regression turnaround by 50% and improving release confidence.
• Introduced AI-assisted automation (GPT-4, Windsurf) to accelerate API test creation — reducing scripting effort by ~75%.
• Drove performance and security initiatives using k6 and OWASP Top 10, enhancing scalability by 30% and reducing vulnerabilities by 40%

Domain: E-Commerce / Automotive

• Led QA delivery across Web, Mobile, and API layers for a 7-member team.
• Built Karate-based automation suites, reducing manual regression effort by 35%.
• Implemented RCA-driven defect prevention, reducing UAT leakage by 45%.

• Strengthened CI/CD validation processes and improved release predictability.

Domain: Healthcare & P&C Insurance
•Managed QA delivery and automation across enterprise programs (Humana, RSA, State Auto), mapping QA KPIs to business objectives—defect prevention, stability, and faster time-to-market.

• Improved test coverage by 40% via regression suite optimization, enabling consistent monthly releases.

Domain: P&C Insurance

• Enhanced and extended an existing keyword-driven automation framework to automate smoke, regression, Product Model, and Business Rules testing across multiple Lines of Business.
• Drove sprint-level automation, optimized execution time, built reusable flows, and handled complex test data for 50+ states to ensure scalable and repeatable test coverage

Domain: Healthcare and Life Sciences

• Worked on a hybrid automation framework, created and enhanced reusable function libraries, automated regional modules, and end-to-end regression suites, integrated execution with QC, and ensured timely delivery of stable automation results.
• Performed end-to-end ETL, interface, and data warehouse testing using source-to-target mappings, along with functional and regression testing, contributed to test planning, peer reviews, knowledge transfers, and selective automation using QTP/Rational Robo tools.